L.J. Sellers

L.J. Sellers is an award-winning journalist and the author of the bestselling Detective Jackson mystery/suspense series and other standalone thrillers. Her novels have been highly praised by Mystery Scene and Spinetingler magazines, and the Jackson series is on Amazon Kindle’s bestselling police procedural list. When not plotting murders, she enjoys performing standup comedy, cycling, social networking, and attending mystery conferences. She’s also been known to jump out of airplanes. You can visit her website here.

Here you can read "Dirty Jobs" by L.J. Sellers. 

Books by L.J. Sellers

The Sex Club--A dead girl, a ticking bomb, a Bible study that's not what it appears to be, and a detective who won't give up.

Secrets to Die For--A brutal murder, a suspect with a strange story, a missing woman with secrets to hide—can Jackson discover the truth in time to save her?

Thrilled to Death--Two missing women with nothing in common, a dead body, and a suspect who hasn’t left his house in a year—Jackson's most puzzling cast yet.

Passions of the Dead--A murdered family, two addicted suspects, and a deadly home invasion lead Jackson on the most disturbing case of his career.

The Baby Thief--Jenna just wanted a baby, but her doctor had other ideas. Kidnapped and drugged, she has no idea where she or how to escape.

The Suicide Effect--Sula overhears a shocking discovery at the drug company she works for, and soon she is running for her life.

Karen Cantwell

I have been writing plays and short stories for many years, some of which were published in various college literary magazines.  More recently, my short story “The Recollections of Rosabelle Raines,” was published in the mystery anthology Chesapeake Crimes: They Had it Comin'.

But I had always wanted to write a novel.  I found that more difficult.  Finally, a few years ago I became inspired to write my first novel, Take the Monkeys and Run, a comedy-mystery, inspired, to some degree by a true monkey sighting.   Because I love to laugh as well as make other people laugh, I have the most fun imagineable writing the character Barbara Marr as well as her friends and adversaries.  When I set out to write this book, I knew I wanted to write something that readers would say, “Now that was FUN.”  I HOPE I have achieved that goal.  And if I did, please feel free to drop me a line at and let me know!  I love to hear from readers.  (especially if they LIKE the book!)

These days, I can be found pecking away at my laptop, conjuring the second Barbara Marr novel, Citizen Insane.

Karen's short story Taming the Hulk.

Books by Karen Cantwell

Take the Monkeys and Run

Soccer mom and film lover, Barbara Marr is on the brink of a dream:  launching her own movie review website.  But on her 45th birthday, this stay-at-home mother of three unwittingly launches herself and her suburban housewife friends into the middle of their own explosive action adventure just like the movies – except these bullets are real.

To read reviews of her book, visit Karen's author blog.

Maria Schneider

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be a writer. I gathered up my computer, memory cards (because you definitely want to back this stuff up!), and dictionary.

It’s a slow journey, one with pitfalls, cliffs, boulders and every now and then a peaceful meadow with a clear brook. Surprisingly, the peaceful meadows aren’t publishing credits, they are just moments where I’m doing what I want to do, where the writing is clicking, where my characters are fascinating and I can’t wait to see what happens next.

Maria Schneider grew up in New Mexico where the desert environment required that she embellish the landscape with her imagination. After working in the computer industry for twelve years, she decided technology moved too slowly, and again put her imagination to work, creating messes and then inventing characters to handle all the clean up. She currently resides near Austin, Texas.

In Haunting Clues by Maria Schneider, Max has been hired to expel a ghost from a mansion. To deal with the dead, though, he must first disentangle the secret vices of the living

Books by Maria Schneider

Sedona O’Hala Series
Executive Lunch (A Sedona O'Hala Mystery)--Sedona is given the opportunity of a lifetime: play an up-and-coming executive with all the trappings of wealth with someone else footing the bill. The catch: find out who is stealing company funds before the criminals find out that their program is being debugged.
Executive Retention is the second in the Sedona O’Hala series. After solving one case of corporate crime, Sedona expected to get her peaceful life back. Problem: She is still a manager at Strandfrost, and there is still rampant jealousy over her promotion. Is the danger of being railroaded by her not-so-illustrious colleagues worse than taking a new undercover job from Steve Huntington?

Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Mystery – Moon Shadow Series
Under Witch Moon is the first in the Moon Shadow Series — Adriel should have known that with a werewolf, it never stopped with just one body. She would have gone to the police after witnessing Dolores’ death, but she wasn’t certain the killer she saw was responsible for the other murders. Besides, the police didn’t believe in werewolves, and they weren’t going to believe she was a witch either so what could she tell them?  One thing she did know:  It was going to take every spell she knew and a few she hadn’t tried to solve the murders and stay alive. 

Catch an Honest Thief (A Haven Mystery)--Alexia just wants to save the city of Haven, but that means going undercover and pretending to be a thief. Can she avoid being caught–by security–or worse, the real thieves??

Tracking Magic--Five case files from Max Killian Investigations: Max is hired to expel a ghost from a mansion, counteract an ancient curse, investigate a graveyard mystery and figure out which secrets are worth dying for.
Sage: Tales from a Magical Kingdom--Three tales from the kingdom of Sage, including: Toil, Trouble and Rot, which was first published by Coyote Wild, and two completely new tales, Dungeons and Decay and Call to Arms.